ideally he would be in contact with his constituents through the use of various communication tools available to him. He would make regular appearances in is constituency where he would LISTEN rather then tell people his opinion. He would take the time to correspond with each letter writer personally as it is is job to represent all of the individuals within his district, not corporations or other special interest groups who don't really represent any of his constituents but rather just happens to make sure he get's his wallet padded.
Well that is the question isn't it. Luckly, despite our brainwashing, there is an entire world outside of the USA. I'm wondering that perhaps the problem lies with our size. Living in an empire sure makes things impersonal so my first guess would be to try a country that is a little bit smaller, where people can't get away with being an asshole so easily because eventually, when you've been an asshole for long enough, mostly everyone knows you are an asshole and they stop putting up with you. What do you think? ;)
I believe he did provide future corrective action... If you are a business, treat your employees with respect and compensate them fairly and you will not have to deal with unions. Unions do not just spontaneously appear in the labor market. They are the result of labor attempting to balance out a market that does not reflect their best interests. Without the support of labor, unions fail.
What people tend to recognizes in their distrust of unions are scenarios where there is deeply entrenched corruption. This corruption tends to stem from the collusion of forces (both union and corporate) to give the appearance of balance but is in really a carefully orchestrated scam set up by those forces to profit from the labor versus employer tensions and in fact perpetuate them intentionally such that it remains profitable for those directly involved in their mediation.
Well said. Most people know little other then their prospective sides propaganda in regards to Corporations and Unions and fail to understand the historic data that will describe the world out of which our current one has been born.
Personally, I've never thought otherwise for any blog. Perhaps what you just states ever so clearly should be "stickied" somewhere so that we don't have to read any more of these "but mike your a hypocrite" posts. ;)
Most docs become docs for the perks and prestige, not for practicing medicine. I routinely talk to doctors who have no clue at all what the hell they are doing, but they've got the attitude problem despite it all.
I have one of those legacy old fashioned roof antenna with a pretty clear line of site to the towers about 20 or so miles away. My reception, most of the time, is pretty good.
I have an old fashion roof antenna circa 1970s that's linked to my media computer in my living room. I hardly watch any of the programming on any of the available stations but it comes in handy when dad comes over and wants to watch whatever golf tournement is happening that day. ;)
HD broadcasting was one of the last puzzle piece, asside from the abysmal internet service from Comcast, that led to my cancelation call.
For the longest time that was the only reason I was keeping cable around, but then Comcast started it's war against it's own customers and my connection was dropping several times an hour all day long. When customer service continued to insist that it was my modem that was at fault, even though it had been replaced twice, or that my lines were at fault, despite their own tech saying everything was good, and that after calling customer service the problem would magically disappear for a few days, I decided to bite the bullet and put my money where my mouth was. I fired Comcast and went with Verison DSL. I know it's not as fast but my service has been impecable and while I don't really like Verizon any more then Comcast, I'm not forced to pay for additional services that I don't use (ie cable TV). I do, however, have to fend off the Verizon FiOS salesman at my doorstep trying to sell me a "bundle of crap I don't need" every few months. Why don't these ISP understand that all I want is internet ACCESS, not phone service, not TV programming or On Demand movie service. I can do all those things for myself with just the plain old interwebs damnit!
Hulu + Netflix(DVDs + Online) + iTune Music Store + DVD + youTube + independent media > Cable
I've already abandoned Cable TV last spring for DSL + the above mentioned content providers/distribution. Cable TV, particularly Comcast, is becoming way to "lowest common denominator". I just couldn't see spending upwards of $100 per month (internet included) on a service that I almost never used because 99% of the programming was just not of any interest to me and to put it blutly, mostly advertising. I'd rather save that money and put it towards products that I actually had an interest in. Since then I've actually spent more money on DVDs and iTunes MS downloads then I previously did.
Get rid of the middle men, IMO.
Personally, I'm hoping that the entire financing model for video production move away from the current advertising model based on lowest common denomenator advertising dollars to people actually producing quality products and investers seeing that there is a market for such and investing in such productions with an understanding that the market is going to be buying their product directly through either DVD sales, online distribution, or through the model being promoted here at techdirt.
I actually like iTunes better then all of the alternative's I've tried over the years. I have Songbird on my media computer and while I like it, I feel that it's lacking in a lot of ways that iTunes just seems to get right.... for me. That's not to say that I don't identify with those who don't find iTunes as an adequate solution for their individual needs. Now, there is software out there that will try and manage your iTunes library, like Songbird, which lets user who, like yourself, want to use third party software to manage their library, but they are still required to use iTunes to sync their iPod/iPhone. I'm not sure I agree with this policy but that's ultimately Apple's call. It's up to me if I still want to use an Apple product knowing that this is their policy and if I don't like it I can "vote with my dollar". I'm still at a loss, however, as to why it's being made out that Apple is somehow pulling one over on users because if this.
I don't always agree with what Apple does but I still enjoy using their products in general (though don't get me started on their horrible implementation of DNS on their server product.
I don't understand why anyone thinks it's Apple's responsibility to make sure it's (free) software works with anyone else's hardware. Especially as has been already said, Apple is peddling hardware. It makes no sense for them to need to make things easier for their competitors.
Now, if this was a discussion about users being forced into using iTunes to sync their iPods, I'd have more of an understanding of where you were coming from, even though I'd still contend that this would be more of a customer service issue rather then something a some sort of moral/ethical delema.
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How does any business get fans... I mean customers?
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I'm still not going to buy dog shit, even if it's the only thing available.
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"Citizens can form lobbies too."
The representative IS the citizens lobby.
Re: Re: Re: Better off...
ideally he would be in contact with his constituents through the use of various communication tools available to him. He would make regular appearances in is constituency where he would LISTEN rather then tell people his opinion. He would take the time to correspond with each letter writer personally as it is is job to represent all of the individuals within his district, not corporations or other special interest groups who don't really represent any of his constituents but rather just happens to make sure he get's his wallet padded.
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Well that is the question isn't it. Luckly, despite our brainwashing, there is an entire world outside of the USA. I'm wondering that perhaps the problem lies with our size. Living in an empire sure makes things impersonal so my first guess would be to try a country that is a little bit smaller, where people can't get away with being an asshole so easily because eventually, when you've been an asshole for long enough, mostly everyone knows you are an asshole and they stop putting up with you. What do you think? ;)
disgusting
This is the kind of thing that make me want to just pack up and get out.
Re: Re: Re: Unions
I believe he did provide future corrective action... If you are a business, treat your employees with respect and compensate them fairly and you will not have to deal with unions. Unions do not just spontaneously appear in the labor market. They are the result of labor attempting to balance out a market that does not reflect their best interests. Without the support of labor, unions fail.
What people tend to recognizes in their distrust of unions are scenarios where there is deeply entrenched corruption. This corruption tends to stem from the collusion of forces (both union and corporate) to give the appearance of balance but is in really a carefully orchestrated scam set up by those forces to profit from the labor versus employer tensions and in fact perpetuate them intentionally such that it remains profitable for those directly involved in their mediation.
Re: Re: Unions
Well said. Most people know little other then their prospective sides propaganda in regards to Corporations and Unions and fail to understand the historic data that will describe the world out of which our current one has been born.
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Man... I really need to just log in so I can ninja edit all my spelling and grammar mistakes.
Re: Re: double standards
Personally, I've never thought otherwise for any blog. Perhaps what you just states ever so clearly should be "stickied" somewhere so that we don't have to read any more of these "but mike your a hypocrite" posts. ;)
Disney died...
...with Walt. Sad but true.
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Most docs become docs for the perks and prestige, not for practicing medicine. I routinely talk to doctors who have no clue at all what the hell they are doing, but they've got the attitude problem despite it all.
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I work in the healthcare industry and, trust me, it's much worse then you could ever imagine.
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What kind of antenna do you have?
I have one of those legacy old fashioned roof antenna with a pretty clear line of site to the towers about 20 or so miles away. My reception, most of the time, is pretty good.
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I have an old fashion roof antenna circa 1970s that's linked to my media computer in my living room. I hardly watch any of the programming on any of the available stations but it comes in handy when dad comes over and wants to watch whatever golf tournement is happening that day. ;)
HD broadcasting was one of the last puzzle piece, asside from the abysmal internet service from Comcast, that led to my cancelation call.
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For the longest time that was the only reason I was keeping cable around, but then Comcast started it's war against it's own customers and my connection was dropping several times an hour all day long. When customer service continued to insist that it was my modem that was at fault, even though it had been replaced twice, or that my lines were at fault, despite their own tech saying everything was good, and that after calling customer service the problem would magically disappear for a few days, I decided to bite the bullet and put my money where my mouth was. I fired Comcast and went with Verison DSL. I know it's not as fast but my service has been impecable and while I don't really like Verizon any more then Comcast, I'm not forced to pay for additional services that I don't use (ie cable TV). I do, however, have to fend off the Verizon FiOS salesman at my doorstep trying to sell me a "bundle of crap I don't need" every few months. Why don't these ISP understand that all I want is internet ACCESS, not phone service, not TV programming or On Demand movie service. I can do all those things for myself with just the plain old interwebs damnit!
Cable is Obsolete!
Hulu + Netflix(DVDs + Online) + iTune Music Store + DVD + youTube + independent media > Cable
I've already abandoned Cable TV last spring for DSL + the above mentioned content providers/distribution. Cable TV, particularly Comcast, is becoming way to "lowest common denominator". I just couldn't see spending upwards of $100 per month (internet included) on a service that I almost never used because 99% of the programming was just not of any interest to me and to put it blutly, mostly advertising. I'd rather save that money and put it towards products that I actually had an interest in. Since then I've actually spent more money on DVDs and iTunes MS downloads then I previously did.
Get rid of the middle men, IMO.
Personally, I'm hoping that the entire financing model for video production move away from the current advertising model based on lowest common denomenator advertising dollars to people actually producing quality products and investers seeing that there is a market for such and investing in such productions with an understanding that the market is going to be buying their product directly through either DVD sales, online distribution, or through the model being promoted here at techdirt.
Re: he meant
Ah, it was strangely worded and I got confuseded. ;)
Re: Re: I don't understand the problem
I actually like iTunes better then all of the alternative's I've tried over the years. I have Songbird on my media computer and while I like it, I feel that it's lacking in a lot of ways that iTunes just seems to get right.... for me. That's not to say that I don't identify with those who don't find iTunes as an adequate solution for their individual needs. Now, there is software out there that will try and manage your iTunes library, like Songbird, which lets user who, like yourself, want to use third party software to manage their library, but they are still required to use iTunes to sync their iPod/iPhone. I'm not sure I agree with this policy but that's ultimately Apple's call. It's up to me if I still want to use an Apple product knowing that this is their policy and if I don't like it I can "vote with my dollar". I'm still at a loss, however, as to why it's being made out that Apple is somehow pulling one over on users because if this. I don't always agree with what Apple does but I still enjoy using their products in general (though don't get me started on their horrible implementation of DNS on their server product.
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I don't understand why anyone thinks it's Apple's responsibility to make sure it's (free) software works with anyone else's hardware. Especially as has been already said, Apple is peddling hardware. It makes no sense for them to need to make things easier for their competitors.
Now, if this was a discussion about users being forced into using iTunes to sync their iPods, I'd have more of an understanding of where you were coming from, even though I'd still contend that this would be more of a customer service issue rather then something a some sort of moral/ethical delema.